Feeding Therapy

For feeding therapy, I treat infants through 10-year-old children who exhibit:

Aversion to certain food consistencies and textures
Food jags (eats the same food for every meal or drops foods from diet without adding another to replace it)
Food refusal, restrictive eating, selective eating
Difficulties with transitioning to next-level textures
Stressful mealtimes or meltdowns when food is presented
Oral motor difficulties such as decreased coordination, range of motion and strength in sucking or chewing, or with poor control of food or liquids
Difficulties drinking from bottles, straws or cups
Limited tongue movement (lateralization)
Limited chewing pattern
Pocketing foods in cheeks
Poor lip closure (oral loss)
Poor jaw grading

Speech Therapy

For speech therapy, I treat infants through 3-year-old children who exhibit:

Delayed or limited vocalizations, verbal imitation, speech sound or word acquisition
Limited age-appropriate play skills
Limited interest in people
Decreased attention to speaker’s mouth
Decreased speech intelligibility
Difficulty with receptive language skills (to listen and understand language)
Difficulty with expressive language skills (unable to make wants or needs known verbally or with gestures)
Decreased social/pragmatic skills (greetings, requesting, protesting, gesturing or pointing)
Increased frustration when not understood or unable to relay message
Decreased interaction or attachment to others
The need for Augmentative and Alternative Communication(AAC) intervention, such as picture symbols, mid-tech switches, speech generating device, etc., via low, mid or high technology